Missed Connections with Tall GirlsTweaking working class colloquialisms into new forms of elegy and song, Gwen Aube's hilarious and uncompromising poems chronicle a precarious, debaucherous carnival of trailer trash divas and Discord autistics, living and delighting in survival at the edges of technocapital. Like a digital age Wanda Coleman, like a transsexual Kevin Killian, like Elizabeth Smart infused with Sybil Lamb, Missed Connections with Tall Girls establishes Aube as a brash

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his patrilineage

He knows counter-espionage and writes of it matter-of-factly as a job

Ryan O'Connell wished he was different

the prioress of the Basque convent he escaped as a young girl

Walker places her own experiences within the larger context of the pressing and underdiscussed aspects of contemporary American womanhood that make up daily life

Contus Pedalis had a legendary member

including those that exist outside of the gender binary

a scholar named Dr

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